I recently tried to load MC (midnight commander) but I received the following errors from ./configure.

sudo ./configure [sudo] password for gb: checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking build system type... x8664-unknown-linux checking host system type... x8664-unknown-linux checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for egrep... grep -E checking for AIX... no checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking minix/config.h usability... no checking minix/config.h presence... no checking for minix/config.h... no checking for library containing strerror... none required checking for pkg-config... /bin/pkg-config checking for glib-2.0... checking for glib-config... no checking for glib12-config... no checking for glib-config... no checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.6... no * The glib-config script installed by GLIB could not be found If GLIB was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in your path, or set the GLIB_CONFIG environment variable to the * full path to glib-config. configure: error: Test for glib failed. GNU Midnight Commander requires glib 1.2.6 or above.

I checked to see that glib was installed.

[gb@bluuna mc-4.6.1]$ rpm -ql glib /usr/lib64/libglib-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib64/libglib-1.2.so.0.0.10 /usr/lib64/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib64/libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10 /usr/lib64/libgthread-1.2.so.0 /usr/lib64/libgthread-1.2.so.0.0.10 /usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10 /usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10/AUTHORS /usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10/COPYING /usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10/ChangeLog /usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10/NEWS /usr/share/doc/glib-1.2.10/README

I tried every link I know how do using env and could not get it to work. I am using fedora 17. Thanks for the help.

wsv123456

In addition to glib, you may also need glib-devel package.

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Why don't you just install a binary package for mc?
Also, the configure script dos not need to be run as root, so you don't need to use sudo here.

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